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...Scelba keep in mind the fact that the more one stretches the rope, the easier it breaks." Thus did the extremists declare war last week on Italy's new Premier Mario Scelba...
Only a thin margin (16 votes in the Chamber of Deputies, 13 in the Senate) separated the new Premier from the fate predicted for him by his enemies-and most of his friends. Last week energetic Mario Scelba set out to prove them wrong. Before putting his Cabinet and his program to a vote of confidence, Scelba first anointed wounds in his own Christian Democratic Party. The violence of outside opposition to him seemed to strengthen support inside the party. He courteously consulted ruffled deputies. He dashed off an earnest public message to Party Leader Alcide de Gasperi...
Paying Saragat. Then Scelba turned to the job of measuring out the high price the 264 Christian Democrats had to pay to win the few (38) but crucial Parliament votes of three splinter parties of the democratic center. Most essential to Scelba's success, and therefore the hardest bargainer, was Giuseppe Saragat, the wavery leader of the Social Democrats. When Pietro Nenni sold out Italian Socialism to the Communists in 1947, Saragat founded a rump party of anti-Communist Socialists. Though his party's strength was cut in half at last summer's elections, Saragat...
Embarrassing Nenni. His Cabinet at last put together, Scelba turned to a program. First on his list: prompt ratification of the EDC treaty. A Trieste settlement was no longer a precondition to EDC approval, as it had been to Pella. The Monarchists, who are outside the government and much opposed to it, announced that they, too, would vote for EDC. Barring a long filibuster, this should assure its passage. Scelba also lined up a heavy public-works program and, with Saragat, mapped a campaign to lay down a steady succession of social-welfare projects that even Pietro Nenni would...
...three years ago, swart young Gaspare Pisciotta was the close friend and trusted lieutenant of Sicily's most notorious bandit chieftain, Salvatore Giuliano (TIME, July 17, 1950 et seq.). Thanks to the unremitting efforts of Mario Scelba, who was then Italy's Interior Minister, Giuliano was killed and Pisciotta captured. At his trial, the boastful bandit lieutenant proudly admitted that it was he who had told the police where to find Giuliano, that it was he and not the police who fired the fatal bullet into the bandit's body. The confession earned him no forgiveness...